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R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or exploitive) of innovation, using a unique survey of firms in Japan. While there is wide agreement that innovation is a key determinant for growth of firms, there are few stud…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-16-9797-5
- Collation
- IX, 99
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics
- Call Number
- 650 HAN r
Local Tax Benefits at a Distance : Japan's Hometown Tax Donation Payment
This book discusses the concepts, types, models, and patterns of Japan’s Hometown Tax Donation Payment system, to provide a clear picture of this newly developed unique and innovative fund-raising tool used by municipalities. It also sheds light on the influences that reciprocal gifts provided by each municipality to donors have on local economies by reviewing empirical works and surveys targ…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-16-5138-0
- Collation
- XV, 100
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 650 HOD l
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage : Economic, Cultural and Social Identity
This open access book offers an interdisciplinary perspective and presents various case studies on music as ICH, highlighting the importance and functionality of music to stimulating social innovation and entrepreneurship. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) covers the traditions or living expressions proposed by the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in fiv…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-76882-9
- Collation
- XV, 144
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 306 MUS
Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments : Guidance on Design…
This open access book offers up-to-date advice and practical guidance on how to undertake a discrete choice experiment as a tool for environmental valuation. It discusses crucial issues in designing, implementing and analysing choice experiments. Compiled by leading experts in the field, the book promotes discrete choice analysis in environmental valuation through a more solid scientific basis …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030626693
- Collation
- XIII, 129
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics
- Call Number
- 333 MAR e
Building a Cashless Society : The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments
This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and hampering it. In doing so, the book covers the role of central banks, political factors, needs for innovation, and the stakeholders involved in developing a cashless ecosystem. …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-10689-8
- Collation
- X, 96
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 332 ARV b
Socioeconomics of Agriculture
This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural sociologists do). Socioeconomic concepts are subsequently used to structure agricultural issues with…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-74141-3
- Collation
- VII, 106
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 338 MAN s
Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship : An Agenda for Europe
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-55092-3
- Collation
- X, 102
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
- Call Number
- 338 ELE i
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the mo…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-41264-6
- Collation
- XV, 456
- Series Title
- Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 58)
- Call Number
- 340 MUL
GDPR and Biobanking: Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research Regulati…
This open access book focuses on the discrepancies in biobank research regulations that are among the most significant hurdles to effective research collaboration. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has established stringent requirements for the processing of health and genetic data, while simultaneously allowing considerable multi-level exceptions for the purposes of scientific rese…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-49388-2
- Collation
- VII, 434
- Series Title
- Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 43)
- Call Number
- 340 GDP
Hope across cultures : Lessons from the International Hope Barometer
This open access book presents an integrative and transdisciplinary conceptualization of hope and brings together cross-cultural studies based on quantitative data from around the globe. It incorporates state-of-the-art theories of hope from psychology, philosophy and theology and presents a novel approach to the study of hope in different life situations. The volume analyses empirical data fro…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-24412-4
- Collation
- XII, 416
- Series Title
- Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology (CAPP, volume 14)
- Call Number
- 150 HOP
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